Friday, August 4, 2017

perception and the digital camera

We have as neighbours a wonderful imaginative and wise couple Philomena and Matt.

They turned up yesterday, he carrying several 8 x 10 copies of a portrait, unposed, he had taken of me while we were at their dining table the other day. Which I have used, adding an email address, in the right column of several blogs now.

I commend to you a browse of Matt's pbase photos. Matt for many years taught photography, as a civilian, to the Australian army. He said to me, reflecting on my left-handedness, that he always, with a new class, asked the left-handed to put up their hands and always found them to have a special sense of photography.

I spoke of how the digital camera, with its instant feedback, altered my life, my vision. This was a nice bond, a sense of shared vision.

We walk through life with the natural capacity of our brains to screen in this, screen in that, scarcely looking, minds on the next burger or murder.

But then you get your head into a camera and soon enough and also without the camera, the eye begins to see composition, juxtaposition, delight, surprise, and more, not least in the 3 x 4 scale of the camera, in minute things there before us, the mid-ground or great vista.

this (in 2017) is a new blog...

The word 'cephalophoria' suggested itself to me, is my own invention, as meaning "love of free mindedness". St Denis, my name saint who apparently could not spell, probably a common enough thing in the third century CE, was a cepalophore. That is a member of a small group of christian saints who somewhat prior to the manner of M Python, carried on doing what they were doing after their heads were cut off. Much impressing ladies for a bit, see here and below, St Denis on the wall of Notre Dame de Paris heading out of town after an encounter with the unwilling.

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I have worked through a number of blogs since 2000. I have had some eight domain names registered for different projects, of which only 'A Place of Info' remains. It resides in a storage space at ipower.com, on an internet superhighway in the USA. That storage space contains legacy folders of such projects previously 'live' with their own domain names. Here are two of them:

St Denis de Paris

A case of severe independent-mindedness - a cephalophore - heading out of Paris still preaching to closely admiring women, after an encounter with the unwilling circa 250CE. (image borrowed from Cool Stuff in Paris of Manning Leonard Krull, click on photo.)